Silent Witness review: Cosy crime drama delivers plenty of killer blowsTelevision: Back for a murderously enthusiastic 28th season, Silent Witness brings a jot of bloody consistency to an unpredictable worldTue Jan 14 2025 - 22:00
Dancing with the Stars review: Waltz by meteorologist Joanna Donnelly in memory of her mother leaves everyone in tearsTelevision: week two of DWTS 2025 sees goosebumps abound and emotions flowSun Jan 12 2025 - 21:31
Alex Kapranos: âI saw a guy in a band being extremely predatory with underage girls. He was exploiting his positionâFranz Ferdinand are back with The Human Fear, perhaps their best album yet. The bandâs frontman talks about two decades in the music businessSat Jan 11 2025 - 05:30
American Primeval review: Seldom has the stench of American conquest risen so raw and hotTelevision: Grippingly gory new western does the seemingly impossible by making us see the old west in a bloody new lightThu Jan 09 2025 - 06:00
TimothĂ©e Chalamet: A Complete Unknown soundtrack review â In what world does this Dylanless Bob Dylan album make sense?Star of new biopic deserves gold medal for effort, but you can only wonder about the target audienceThu Jan 09 2025 - 05:00
Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action review - gripping film does not flinch from horror unleashed by obnoxious showTelevision review: The tasteless sleaze Jerry Springer paraded across the screen has long since been eclipsed by the great dumbing down of culture off cameraTue Jan 07 2025 - 06:00
Prosthetics, a body suit and a standout performance: Why Colin Farrell deserves his Golden Globe for The PenguinTelevision: Star buried his natural charm and affability under layers of latex to become the most un-Farrell-like creature imaginableMon Jan 06 2025 - 13:03
Room to Improve review: Dermot Bannonâs fancy pants design runs into a clientâs wish for a lovable and liveable homeTelevision: Room To Improve turns an everyday makeover project into an engaging story and tells it with passion and empathySun Jan 05 2025 - 22:30
Dancing with the Stars review: Twists, turns and all kinds of grimaces as new judge Karen Byrne goes up against sourpuss Brian RedmondTelevision: Olympians Jack Woolley and Rhys McClenaghan are clear front-runners as RTĂâs dance competition returns for its 2025 seasonSun Jan 05 2025 - 21:44
Irish music acts to watch in 2025: 22 to follow, from Cardinals to YunĂš PinkuWho are Irelandâs rising stars? Hereâs who to keep an eye on this yearSat Jan 04 2025 - 05:15
Missing You review: another hard-nosed lady cop with a scorched-earth personal life from Harlan CobenNetflix review: While the cliches are ticked off one by one, the UK-set whodunnit with a convoluted plot and soap opera-level acting is pleasing hokum from mystery writer Harlan CobenThu Jan 02 2025 - 06:00
Skinner: New Wave Vaudeville â Spasmodic shot of art rock walks the tightrope between high culture and backstreet scuzzDubliner Aaron Corcoran names debut album in honour of Manhattan clubâs ethos of âcelebrating the weird part of who you areâThu Jan 02 2025 - 05:00
The Traitors review: riotously addictive gameshow is piled high with murder, mystery and statement capesTelevision review: Much of the fun with The Traitors from the BBC is in how seriously it takes itself. A creepy castle in the Scottish Highlands helps with the ambience, too. RTĂ will probably be set the new Irish version at Limerick JunctionWed Jan 01 2025 - 21:00
The Late Late NYE Show review: Patrick Kielty rises above some mystifying moments with a good line in take-no-prisoner jokesTelevision: Despite blink-and-itâs-over conversations with wildly mismatched guests, this New Yearâs Eve special is much better than 2023âsWed Jan 01 2025 - 11:24
Dancing with the Stars 2025: Who are the contestants, when is it on and moreEverything you need to know about RTĂâs new season of the competition for the glitterball trophyMon Dec 30 2024 - 05:00
Nanci Griffith: From a Distance review â harrowing account of the country music starâs life that ended in isolation and alcoholismTelevision review: While Nanci Griffith's final years were tragic, there are many heartwarming aspects to the story of a singer with low self-esteem and a poetic air who found success in IrelandSun Dec 29 2024 - 21:00
Henry Mount Charles: A Lord in Slane â The strange blend of fact and fiction around one of the last Anglo-Irish eccentricsTelevision: Much we think we know about the custodian of Slane Castle is conjured from thin air, as becomes clear in this absorbing documentaryFri Dec 27 2024 - 19:27
Squid Game season two review: Tense, bloody follow-up ticks boxes if youâre craving more Red Light, Green LightTelevision: Seong Gi-hun, the down-and-out hero from season one, is on the trail of âthe Recruiterâ, the dapper gent who searches for contestantsThu Dec 26 2024 - 08:00
Mrs Brownâs Boys Christmas Special review: Unkillable comedyâs wit is as sharp as a mouthful of Brussels sproutsTelevision: Brendan OâCarrollâs slapstick purgatory remains a Bacchanalia of single entendres and fnarr-fnarr gagsWed Dec 25 2024 - 21:28
Indiana Jones should be on the sex offendersâ register: Some Christmas films age better than othersSome of the beloved hits of your youth have not aged well. Many were far darker than you imagineTue Dec 24 2024 - 06:30
The Young Offenders Christmas Special review: Whereâs Jock? Without him, Conorâs firearm foxer isnât quite a crackerChris Walleyâs charismatic tearaway is still in prison on drug charges, leaving his best pal, the Knocknaheeny scamp Conor, flying soloFri Dec 20 2024 - 21:59
One Leg One Eye review: Forget Fairytale of New York. This is a soundtrack of the real Irish ChristmasIan Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noiseFri Dec 20 2024 - 11:25
Saint Etienne: The Night â Say hello to the insomniac street preachersBob Stanley, Sarah Cracknell and Pete Wiggs return with album about chilly thoughts that race through the middle-aged mind when the lights dimThu Dec 19 2024 - 05:00
So This Is Christmas review: Beautifully made but ultimately cheerless viewing â a glimmer of hope would have been niceTelevision: We all know Christmas can be tough but this film lays it on with a trowelWed Dec 18 2024 - 22:35
Strike: The Ink Black Heart review: JK Rowlingâs unlikely cult hit is a gift that keeps on givingTelevision: BBCâs sixth adaptation of authorâs Robert Galbraith crime books is full of rumpled charmMon Dec 16 2024 - 22:00
From Baby Reindeer and The Traitors to Bodkin and The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In: The best and worst television of 2024 The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictableFri Dec 13 2024 - 06:00
100 Years of Solitude review: A woozy, feverish watch to be savoured in bite-sized portionsTelevision: Lavish adaptation of Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquezâs 1967 novel is both meditative and steamy, sometimes to the point of hilarityThu Dec 12 2024 - 11:04
No Good Deed review: Even Lisa Kudrow canât save this pre-Christmas turkey of a dark comedyTelevision: LA suburbia-set series is just too miserable to make viewers laugh. Itâs like the grimmest ever season of Location, Location, LocationThu Dec 12 2024 - 07:00
Tori Amos: Diving Deep Live â An A-grade tour of the singerâs lesser-spotted B-sides and deep cutsFew cut a more fascinating figure than Amos, whose stage performances have long offered a more profound and esoteric experience than her studio workThu Dec 12 2024 - 05:00
Inside Aer Lingus review: A dull infomercial masquerading as a behind-the-scenes documentaryTelevision revivew: A potentially promising idea is wasted by a film that serves as a glorified commercial for the airlineMon Dec 09 2024 - 22:00
Paul Mescal on Saturday Night Live review: Gladiator II star skewers Americaâs bizarre views about IrelandTV review: Paul Mescal displays no mercy in his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live and brings all his Hollywood charisma to bearSun Dec 08 2024 - 11:12
Late Late Toy Show review: Patrick Kielty does not have Tubridy's hamster-on-Red Bull energy, but that's possibly a good thingMariah Carey pops up with a video message as 150-minute show reaches the finish line with a group performance of All I Want For Christmas Is YouSat Dec 07 2024 - 00:43
Who is Zach Bryan, the country music star whoâs just sold out summer concerts at the Phoenix Park?Is the musician from Oklahoma the next Garth Brooks? Well, about 100,000 people will flock to Dublin for three concerts next June see the 28-year-old superstar going supernova in real-timeThu Dec 05 2024 - 14:18
Black Doves review: Keira Knightley is delightfully sweary as a devoted wife by day and deadly assassin by nightTelevision: Thereâs an awful lot going on in Joe Bartonâs espionage romp â a surprise cameo from Galway band The Stunningâs Steve Wall, for one thingThu Dec 05 2024 - 10:00
The Young Offenders deserves better than to be dumped on RTĂâs online playerTelevision: Handed a hit comedy by the BBC, RTĂ has once again fumbled its big punchlineWed Dec 04 2024 - 11:47
Scannal: Savita review â Heartbreaking chronicle of the medieval essence at heart of Irish healthcare systemTelevision: Sensitive and wrenching documentary series recounts the death of Savita Halappanavar after she suffered a miscarriage 17 weeks into her pregnancyTue Dec 03 2024 - 19:30
Ed Sheeran and Mary Robinson are right. Itâs time to bin Band AidBand Aid revisionism hasnât dropped from the clear blue winter sky. Itâs been there since the startSat Nov 30 2024 - 07:07
James Vincent McMorrow: âIâve been building back a version of me that made me happy rather than crying every nightâThe Dubliner isnât the first name that comes to mind as a songwriter for a boy-band megastar. But working with Louis Tomlinson was just what he needed after his record-label disappoinmentSat Nov 30 2024 - 05:15
âI wasnât used to people in their early 20s, getting sick and dyingâ: The harrowing story of Aids in IrelandMemorial â The Story of HIV/Aids in Ireland review: An empathetic yet unsentimental documentaryThu Nov 28 2024 - 23:15
Ballroom Blitz review: Adam Claytonâs celebration of Irish showbands hints at the burden of being in U2TV review: U2 bassist Adam Clayton is a decent presenter and great fun to hang with, but the documentary leans too hard on nostalgia for nostalgiaâs sakeWed Nov 27 2024 - 22:35
Anohni at the National Concert Hall review: A night of nourishing melancholia conjuring an ocean of warmthIn homage to Lou Reed, Anohni gives late musicianâs work the creative approach she feels it deservesWed Nov 27 2024 - 15:22
Leadersâ debate TV review: With an eye for drama, Miriam OâCallaghan pins Mary Lou McDonald and MicheĂĄl Martin to their collarsTelevision: Miriam OâCallaghan did her best to add pep to this tedious chinwag but we ended up with pure lethargyWed Nov 27 2024 - 09:58
Irresistible: Why We Canât Stop Eating â how the food industry cracked the code and made us all eat moreTelevision: The big message of this show is that we should not feel guilty about our eating habits, just angry about how we got hereMon Nov 25 2024 - 22:00
The album that nearly finished U2: The story of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and its new âshadowâ LPHow to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb features 10 tracks from the recording sessions that made some of the band wonder if theyâd have anything to releaseSat Nov 23 2024 - 05:15
Blindboy: The Land of Slaves and Scholars review â Innovative look at the tumultuousness of Irish historyTelevision: The podcaster and author taps into the sense of haunting weirdness that runs through Irish historyThu Nov 21 2024 - 23:14
Cruel Intentions review: Bring back the oversexed, amoral rich kids. This remake is joyless, ludicrous and dullTelevision: The only reason the series exists is to cash in on nostalgia for the original camp masterpieceThu Nov 21 2024 - 11:36
The Listeners review: Creepy and absorbing thriller is a showcase for Irish actor Ollie WestTelevision review: West plays a school student struggling with a sound only he and teacher Rebecca Hall can hearTue Nov 19 2024 - 21:45
U2: How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb track by track review â Hold on to your mirror shades for classic moments and wigged-out curiosInevitably for an out-take album, itâs a bit glued together and rough at the edges, but even U2 agnostics will like a lot of the tracksTue Nov 19 2024 - 17:32
Leadersâ debate review: Were all the participants tranquillised en route to the studio?Television: Occasional sparks insufficient to draw viewers out of their pre-election stuporTue Nov 19 2024 - 10:58
Anohni: âThe Irish are fighting the good fight in so many regardsâThe Mercury Prize-winning singer on Trumpâs misogyny, climate change and preparing to celebrate her mentor Lou Reed in DublinTue Nov 19 2024 - 05:15
